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Series · Disney+ · 2007

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Phineas and Ferb

51Watch it awake.

Invention as play, a family that is still in the house. The formula is the limit. Fine in doses.

The review

The joke is that childhood is a construction permit the parents never quite notice. Phineas and Ferb are industrious in the way a cartoon can be: a roller coaster before lunch, no bill, no one hurt. Candace's need to be believed is the more human engine. Perry's double life is a spy sketch attached to a backyard.

A child can take the building. Do not take the lesson that a marvel leaves no mess and no adult has to be told. One episode, then a real project with a parent who is looking.

Journal

Keep Phineas and Ferb in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 51. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Republic are the thin ones.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

DuckTales

64 instead of 51

DuckTales is still a comedy show, and it scores 64 instead of 51. What you gain is stewardship: A house restored is worth more than the next artifact.

The eight

8
Industry
They design and build. The craft is the show.
6
Household
Brothers, a sister, parents home. The parents are pleasant and unseeing.
2
Piety
None.
5
Courage
The builds are brave only because they are impossible. Nobody bleeds.
4
Republic
A backyard, not a town. Doofenshmirtz is a comic tyrant.
6
Temperance
Summer excess, reset by dinner. The day does not keep the damage.
5
Truth
Candace tells the truth and the evidence folds itself away.
5
Stewardship
What they make is gone by sunset. Nothing is kept.

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Bluey Book Reads

51Watch it awake.

An adult voice, a book, a child listening. Use it once, then read a book yourself.

The review

This is not a new story. It is famous people reading the stories the series already told, which are stories about a mother, a father, and two girls at play. A read-aloud is a good form. A celebrity is not required for it, and the desk will not pretend the celebrity is the good.

Put it on if it gets a child to be still for a book. Then you do the next one. The measure is the lap and the last page, not the name under the title.

Journal

Keep Bluey Book Reads in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 51. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Piety and Courage and Republic are the thin ones.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood

73 instead of 51

Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood is still a kids show, and it scores 73 instead of 51. What you gain is republic: A neighborhood where the adults know the child by name.